SpaceX Launch Schedule
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has many pads, on the East Coast of the US they own SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral and LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center for their lower inclination launches. They also own SLC-4E at Vandenberg, California for their high inclination launches. Another site is also being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SmallSat Rideshare Mission 2
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Oct. 1, 2020, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sentinel-6A (Jason-CS)
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Nov. 1, 2020, midnight
Status: TBD
Mission: Earth Science
The Sentinel-6A mission, also known as Jason Continuity of Service (Jason-CS), is a partnership between NASA, NOAA, ESA, and EUMETSAT. This mission consists of two parts: the first one continues the long-term global sea surface height data record begun by first Jason satellites in 1992. This part of the mission will provide altimeter data necessary for ocean climate monitoring, ocean modelling and numerical ocean prediction, weather forecasting, marine meteorology, coastal altimetry and modelling. A secondary objective of the mission is to collect high-resolution vertical profiles of temperature, using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio-Occultation sounding technique, to assess temperature changes in the troposphere and stratosphere and to support numerical weather prediction. Sentinel-6A is to operate in a highly-inclined circular orbit at an altitude of 1336 km, with an operational mission lasting 5 years.
Low Earth OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | SmallSat Rideshare Mission 3
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Dec. 1, 2020, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 1-3
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | WorldView Legion 1
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | WorldView Legion 2
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 series satellite
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Status: TBD
Mission: Communications
The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.
Geostationary Transfer OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-85
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-87
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Türksat 5B
SpaceX | USAUnknown Location
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5
Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAWhen the Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket reaches Max-Q (maximum dynamic forces), the launch abort system of the Crew Dragon spacecraft will be triggered. ...
Ariane 5 ECA
Eutelsat Konnect & GSAT-30
Ariane Launch Area 3 - Kourou, French GuianaEutelsat Konnect is an all-electric, Ka-band geostationary communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space for Eutelsat. It will provide broa...
Kuaizhou
Kuaizhou
Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaLong March 2D
Long March 2D
Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaLong March 3
TJS-5 (TJSW-5)
Unknown - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaTJS-5 is a geostationary communications satellite. It offers satellite communication, television and broadcasting services, while also verifying h...
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 2
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 5
Shijian 20
Wenchang - Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaShijian 20 is an experimental geostationary communications satellite. This is also a return-to-flight launch for Long March 5 after a July 2017 fai...
Rokot / Briz-KM
Gonets-M24, Gonets-M25, Gonets-M26 & Blits-M
133/3 (133L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationGonets-M are an upgraded version of Gonets satellites, derived from military communications system Strela-3. Gonets-M constellation is tasked with...
Proton-M
Elektro-L No.3
81/24 (81P) - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanElektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. They are designed to capture re...
Atlas V N22
CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test (Uncrewed)
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAThis is the first test flight of Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. Although Atlas V and Centaur upper stage successfully put...
